“I now declare that the Dan Discussion has officially begun!” After finishing his speech, Saint Emperor Qing Yi walked off the dan platform.
Ning Cheng had never seen how the discussion of pills was done, but he did not ask Jian Sanshan again, he would wait and see how others discussed pills and how he would do the same.
Just as Saint Emperor Qing Yi stepped down, a man with a short body and a square face flew down on top of the dan platform. This man gave a Dan Master’s salute and said aloud, “Heavenly Medicine Sect Yudao Dan Saint Behan Yuan has met all the seniors and patriarchs, and has met all the Dan Dao friends.
The Dao of the Great Dao of Dan of Elder Qiu Tian has given me a deep insight, and the idea of Dan is like a bone in my throat. With the help of this Dan Dao, Bu Han Yuan is here to cast a brick to draw in the jade, and I would like to ask all seniors to point out any mistakes in the Dan theory.”
Jian Sanshan’s voice transmission came over again, “Brother Ning, although Bu Han Yuan is a Nurtured Dao Dan Saint, his strength is not trivial. He is the number one Dan Saint of the Heavenly One Pill Sect, and he represented the Tai Su Realm at the last|Yu|Yu|Novel|More|New|Fastest|www.uuxs.cc|One time the Five Realms Dan Competition was held, he went there.”
Ning Cheng nodded, this Bu Han Yuan he had met before, had participated in the Illusory Fruit Garden and had entered the third level of the Illusory Fruit Garden’s Pill Garden. Seeing the start of Bu Han Yuan’s Dan Discussion, Ning Cheng transmitted his voice to ask Jian Sanshan, “Brother Jian, will you be going up for the Dan Discussion?”
Jian Sanshan said awkwardly, “Usually when there are fewer people, I plan to go up there to discuss some. This will give me some pointers that will be helpful to my own dan dao. But when there are a lot of Dan masters discussing Dan, I won’t go and join in the fun. Usually those who go to compete for such spots are at least Dao-shaping Dan Saints. I’m a Dan God, not much competition.”
“How was the Dan Discourse Extravaganza selected to select five people?” Ning Cheng continued to ask.
Jian Sanshan carefully explained, “As long as one has the qualifications of a Dao-shaping Dan God, anyone can go on the Dan Stage to discuss pills. The total score for the first round of the Dan Discussion is thirty points, this score is given by the Dan Guild’s Guild Master based on the Dan Dao of the Dan Master, and the top twenty Dan Masters in the Dan Discussion score enter the second round. The second round is all about refuting your opponent’s Dan Dao, and then by means of your Dan Dao, refining a better Dan than your opponent, you win. In this round only the one with the highest score can refute the one with the lowest score.
The most you can refute the opponent’s Dan Dao is one Dan master. If you win, the opponent’s score in the first round of the dan debate is all yours. To avoid losing, so when refuting a dan dao, everyone picks the weaker opponent, just in case.
After the second round, the third round of the Dan competition, which is a straightforward contest. That was a competition to see who could refine a potion of high value and difficult to make. The materials for the pills are provided by themselves and the pills that are refined belong to each person. In fact, every Dan Discourse event was placed after the opening of the Illusory Fruit Garden, also for the sake of the materials for refining pills. The score for this round is seventy points, which are given based on the difficulty of refining pills and their colour.”
“What if one doesn’t make it to the top twenty of the Dan Discourse and has a high level of alchemy?”
“If one really has a high level of alchemy, one can still challenge after the top five are decided. The challenge requires pressing at least three Dao Fruits of the Dao of Transformation, and as long as you can beat the highest scorer, you can still represent the Tai Su Realm in the Five Realms Dan Competition even if you don’t participate in the Dan Discourse or the Barge Dan Dao. Since the Dao Fruits will not be returned whether you win or lose, the fact is that this possibility is almost non-existent.”
When Jian Sanshan said this, he was still afraid that Ning Cheng would not understand what he meant, so he explained one more thing, “In fact, even if you are challenged, you still have to refute the dan with the other party.”
After hearing Jian Sanshan’s explanation, Ning Cheng nodded his head. Even he was not willing to take out three Dao Transformation Fruits and then exchange them for a challenge. Three Dao Transformation Fruits were not a little bit precious, and besides the best scoring dan master would definitely not be a nobody. Whether he won or lost, he would be offending a major power.
So if he wanted to represent the Tai Su Realm in the Five Realms Dan Competition, he might as well start participating from the first round.
After Ning Cheng basically figured out the Dan Selection, Bu Han Yuan was completely immersed in his own Dan Dao, “…… So I think Dan is single, and single is also one. The person who can know one, all things are finished. If you know one, there is no one that you don’t know. The one who does not know one, there is no one who can know. …… Qiu Tian Dan Sheng has said that the Dan Dao is also the Dao of Heaven, also the Dao of Humanity, and also the Dao of Eternal Life. …… The Dao is born from nothingness and produces one qi, then from one qi, yin and yang are produced, and yin and yang are then synthesized into three bodies, and the three bodies are reborn and all things flourish… …”
Ning Cheng originally did not care about these Dan Dao theories, but he heard Bei Han Yuan say, ‘Those who know one, there is no one who does not know one. If one does not know one, there is no one that can know it. …… The Dao is born from nothingness, then from one breath, it produces yin and yang, and yin and yang then synthesize into three bodies, and the three bodies are born into three bodies, and all things flourish. ……’, his heart actually resonated.
Wouldn’t this have something in common with his Dao of Returning to One? He did not think much of Behan Yuan’s Dan Dao, but he was concerned about this one qi statement. The Dao of emptiness gives birth to one qi, one qi returns yin and yang, yin and yang unite the three bodies, and the three bodies give birth to all things ……
Everything begins with one, and everything comes back to one.
At this moment, he once again entered into the epiphany of the Dao of Returning to One.
Sitting in front of him, Si Chen Qiu Tian suddenly landed his gaze on Ning Cheng, a hint of astonishment appearing in his eyes. He had noticed Ning Cheng a long time ago, because from the information he had received, Ning Cheng was the Dan Master who could possibly open the thirteenth gate of the Illusory Fruit Garden. This kind of genius dan master, he would naturally not overlook.
To be honest, the fact that Ning Cheng had fallen into an epiphany in Bu Han Yuan’s Dao of Discourses on Dans still made him a little disappointed in his heart. Although Bu Han Yuan’s Discourse on Dan had drawn on his Dan Dao, it was riddled with errors and could not become a system at all. In his words, it was the Path of the Little Dan.
Ning Cheng’s achievement was obviously limited when he had an epiphany in the Dao of the Lesser Dan.
Si Chen Qiu Tian sighed and was about to move his gaze away from Ning Cheng when he suddenly sensed that something was wrong. He then stared at Ning Cheng even more shocked, because he could see that what Ning Cheng had sensed was actually not the Dao of Dan, but his own Dao.
Instead of sensing the Dao of Dan during someone else’s discussion on the Dao of Dan, he had an epiphany of his own Dao, was this the sadness of those who discussed the Dao of Dan, or was this the inverse of those who sensed it? This simply cannot be judged by common sense.
The one who felt most deeply about Ning Cheng’s epiphany was Jian Sanshan, who was sitting right next to Ning Cheng. Ning Cheng had fallen into an epiphany and his aura continued to rise, which was obviously a gradual rise in Ning Cheng’s understanding of the divine Dao idea. In his heart, he was just as shocked at Ning Cheng’s terrifying ability to have an epiphany, he could even have an epiphany under such circumstances.
Jian Sanshan was not Si Chen Qiu Tian, so he could only sense that Ning Cheng had fallen into an epiphany, but he did not know that Ning Cheng did not have an epiphany of Bei Han Yuan’s Dao of Dan, but of his own Dao of Return. It could be said that Ning Cheng’s epiphany had nothing to do with Bu Han Yuan. If one were to say that it was related, it would be that Bu Han Yuan had given Ning Cheng a reminder.
Bu Han Yuan’s Dan discussion did not last long before it ended, and for reasons unknown to Si Chen Qiu Tian, he gave Bu Han Yuan twenty-one points, which was considered a high score.
Having received twenty-one points, Bu Han Yuan’s face was all smiles as he came down from the dan platform.
Jian Sanshan soon felt that something was wrong, as it was reasonable to say that after Bu Han Yuan had come down and the second dan master of the dan debate had come on stage, Ning Cheng should have finished from his epiphany. Not only did Ning Cheng not finish, the aura on his body continued to climb.
One by one, Dan masters came on stage to discuss pills, and even when Jing Han, Dou stiff stone, Lei Shaam and the other Dao of Transformation Dan Saints had all come on stage to discuss pills, Ning Cheng still had not come to his senses.
As he saw that the first round of the Dan discussion was about to end, Jian Sanshan became a little anxious. It didn’t matter if he went up or not, Ning Cheng was a Dao of Transformation Dan Saint and had an absolute chance of achieving the top five this time. If he missed out on the Dao of Discourses of Dan, it would be almost impossible for Ning Cheng to make it to the top five.
As fewer and fewer Dan Saints came on stage to discuss Dao, Jian Sanshan knew that it was too late. Ning Cheng was caught in an epiphany, so he couldn’t wake Ning Cheng up. There were cultivators who never had an epiphany once in their lives, and once you disturbed the other person’s epiphany, it was a life-and-death enmity.
No matter how important it was to participate in the Dan Competition, it was not as important as such a long epiphany.
Not to mention Jian Sanshan, even Sheng Houtian, Cen Ruxuan and Percy, who were familiar with Ning Cheng, all looked at Ning Cheng’s side in confusion, they also wondered why Ning Cheng did not go up to the stage to discuss Dan.
Some of the dan masters who guessed that Ning Cheng had entered the thirteenth level of the Illusory Fruit Garden were watching Ning Cheng, and after being convinced that Ning Cheng had no idea of going up to the stage to discuss pills, they all had some doubts about whether Ning Cheng had entered the thirteenth level of the Illusory Fruit Garden or not.
After the first round ended and the second round of barging pills began, Ning Cheng was still in the midst of his epiphany. When the time came, Jian Sanshan could only sigh and stop dwelling on the matter, concentrating on feeling the Dan Dao refutations and alchemical Dan rhythms of the many Dan Dao powerhouses on the Dan platform.
This time, Jing Han was the first one to take the stage, and as soon as he did, he said directly, “The Dao of Dan has nothing to do with one. One can be a dao fruit or a spiritual object, but not a dan. The one I want to refute is the Heavenly Medicine Sect’s Yudao Dan Sage Behan Yuan ……”
All of them were dumbfounded, Bu Han Yuan had scored too high in the first round, even if Jing Han did not refute him, someone else would refute him, who did not want this twenty-one points?
Bu Han Yuan was a bit helpless, his joy at scoring high marks in the first round vanished without a trace. He was far from Jing Han’s rival in the Dan Dao and alchemy competitions, and he was sure to lose this round. Even though he knew he would lose, he could only go to the dan platform to fight.
……
When Ning Cheng woke up, he saw that the person on the Dan platform was Saint Emperor Qing Yi, who said with a smile on his face, “After three rounds of Dan discussion, the top five finalists are, Immortal Corpse Sect Daoist Dan Saint Dou stiff stone, Tai Shen Dan Sect Daoist Dan Saint Jing Han, City Lord Mansion Daoist Dan Saint Le Xi Zhen, Li Yu Divine Mountain Daoist Dan Saint Yan Kuai Fu, Lack of Moon Valley Daoist Dan Saint Mei Xiu Wan ……”
Is this the end of the Dan Competition? Ning Cheng looked at the Qing Yi Saint Emperor on the dan platform in amazement, somewhat dazed. The benefits of this epiphany to him were unimaginable, and Ning Cheng believed that with this epiphany, he would soon advance to the middle stage of Dao Shaping. This kind of underlying knowledge of the Dao could not be transmitted in words, only one could clearly understand it.
“Brother Ning, you have actually had an epiphany for ten days and ten nights.” Jian Sanshan’s regretful voice came out, clearly feeling that Ning Cheng’s epiphany had taken too long.
Ning Cheng asked in confusion, “Brother Jian, that’s not right, isn’t there still a Dao Transformation Dan Saint called Resham?”
“Dan Saint Lei Shaam, when he was refuting the dan, lost to Dao Breeding Dan Saint Mei Xiuyuan of the Missing Moon Valley.” Jian Sanshan replied.